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CrowdStrike Offers $10 Uber Eats Gift Card for Global IT Outage Apology Affecting 8.5 Million Devices: TechCrunch

Jul 24, 2024, 04:28 PM

CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity firm, is offering its partners a $10 Uber Eats gift card as an apology for a global IT outage caused by a botched update. The incident, which occurred on July 19, rendered 8.5 million Windows devices unusable and led to widespread disruptions, including airport delays and halted surgeries. The company expressed its heartfelt thanks and apologies for the inconvenience in an email to its partners. However, some recipients reported that the gift cards were invalid and had been canceled by the issuing party. The outage affected millions of computers worldwide and is expected to cost billions in losses, according to TechCrunch.